My Field Experience: Leadership Strengths Of The Leadership Experience

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I have gained an abundant amount of knowledge on leadership throughout this course as well as discovering my own leadership style strengths and weaknesses. The Field Experience assignment will test my weaknesses in order for me to improve them. I turned to chapter two, Trait Approach and used the five major leadership traits as a guide to determine what areas I need to improve on the most. I believe I strongly portray determination and integrity in my leadership roles, but intelligence, self-confidence, and sociability need to be improved. With further reading in chapter three, Skills Approach, I found three similar areas of leadership traits I felt I could also work on. The Skills Model of Leadership states three competencies: problem-solving, social judgement skills, and knowledge. With the collaboration of information in both chapters I decided to work on these three main leadership traits for my Field Experience: self-confidence, problem-solving, and overall sociability. The first leadership trait I need to improve on is self-confidence. My lack of confidence is apparent when I share my ideas with my followers and I begin to doubt myself when negativity arises. If I display confidence in my decisions then my followers will feel confident in themselves as well as their leader. Instead of selling myself short, I need to gain the confidence to show …show more content…

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